NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 and AMD Radeon RX Vega XT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 4% higher boost clock speed: 1695 MHz vs 1630 MHz
1332.4x more texture fill rate: 556.0 GTexel/s vs 417.3 GTexel / s
2.6x more pipelines: 10496 vs 4096
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 14 nm
3x more maximum memory size: 24 GB vs 8 GB

Launch date	1 Sep 2020 vs 8 August 2017
Boost clock speed	1695 MHz vs 1630 MHz
Texture fill rate	556.0 GTexel/s vs 417.3 GTexel / s
Pipelines	10496 vs 4096
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 14 nm
Maximum memory size	24 GB vs 8 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Around 8% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 1395 MHz
Around 56% lower typical power consumption: 225 Watt vs 350 Watt
Around 55% higher memory clock speed: 1890 MHz vs 1219 MHz (19.5 Gbps effective)
Around 4% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 196748 vs 188320

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 1395 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	225 Watt vs 350 Watt
Memory clock speed	1890 MHz vs 1219 MHz (19.5 Gbps effective)
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	196748 vs 188320

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

188320

196748

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090	AMD Radeon RX Vega XT
PassMark - G3D Mark	26818
PassMark - G2D Mark	1051
Geekbench - OpenCL	188320	196748
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	732.196
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	7585.258
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	63.011
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	247.569
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	2441.384
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	33398
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3354
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	33398
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3354
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	19875

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090	AMD Radeon RX Vega XT
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 5.0
Code name	GA102	Vega 10
Launch date	1 Sep 2020	8 August 2017
Launch price (MSRP)	$1499
Place in performance rating	40	34
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1695 MHz	1630 MHz
Core clock speed	1395 MHz	1500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	556.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	35.58 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	35.58 TFLOPS
Pipelines	10496	4096
Pixel fill rate	189.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	556.0 GTexel/s	417.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	350 Watt	225 Watt
Transistor count	28300 million
Floating-point performance		13,353 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Height	138 mm (5.4 inches)
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	313 mm (12.3 inches)	267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	750 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 12-pin	2x 8-pin
Width	Triple-slot
API support
DirectX	12.2
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6
Shader Model	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	936.2 GB/s	483.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 bit	2048 Bit
Memory clock speed	1219 MHz (19.5 Gbps effective)	1890 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6X	HBM2